Senior Legal Discovery Program Manager

The role

You will shape and scale discovery capabilities to support litigation, regulatory, and investigations dockets. You will drive strategic initiatives across discovery operations, vendor management, and information governance.

What you will do

• Build and advance OpenAI's discovery program including operations, processes, vendor management, and information governance.
• Partner with Legal, Engineering, IT, Security, and Privacy teams to translate legal requirements into solutions and workflows.
• Drive AI and agentic discovery initiatives through evaluation, piloting, and adoption.
• Provide guidance on complex discovery matters and escalations.
• Track program outcomes and communicate priorities, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in discovery, litigation support, legal operations, or related work.
• Significant ownership of complex discovery programs.
• Experience leading projects and programs at a fast-paced technology company.
• Track record of building and launching programs from the ground up.
• Deep understanding of the discovery lifecycle.
• Strong working knowledge of eDiscovery platforms, enterprise data systems, and information governance.
• Ability to work with technical teams on requirements, integrations, and troubleshooting.
• Experience managing discovery vendors and outside counsel.
• Excellent program management and analytical skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Sound judgment.
• Ability to build trust and influence partners without direct authority.

Nice to have

• Excited to learn and apply AI to legal work

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.